Mary Barnes was a psychiatric patient with schizophrenia made famous by her association with the psychiatrist R D Laing.
Laing, often referred to as part of the 'antipsychiatry movement', founded Kingsley Hall, a therapeutic community in the East end of London where treatment was based on the principles, set out in his books such as 'The Divided Self', and 'Sanity, Madness and the Family', that psychiatric illness, and schizophrenia in particular, were understandable when seen from the sufferer's point of view. Beginning in the 1960s, a movement called anti-psychiatry claimed that psychiatric patients are not ill but are individuals that do not share the same consensus reality as most people in society. ...
Mary Barnes entered Kingsley Hall in 1965, and would later be described as 'an ambassador for Laing', emerging from her journey through madness to co-author a book about it with Joseph Berke, the resident psychiatrist who helped her. Kingsley Hall Kingsley Hall is a community centre in the East End of London. ...
She later became a respected artist, painting evocative works based on her experiences. She died in 2001.
Kingsley Hall Kingsley Hall is a community centre in the East End of London. ... Frederick S. (Fritz) Perls (1893 - 1970) was a noted German-born psychologist and psychotherapist. ...
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